QGIS on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr I’ve have started working nearly 100%, outside of work, in Ubuntu. I was running Ubuntu 13.10 so naturally I decided to upgrade to 14.04. My experience has been positive for the most part, but after the upgrade I was having issues with my install of QGIS 2.2. Python – QGIS was not installing so I was not able to install any Plugins So after some digging I finally discovered that my “Software & Updates” repository for QGIS was still pointing to the Saucy Salamander (Ubuntu 13.10) package. So I changed my repository to the Trusty Tahr (Ubuntu 14.04), and…

The installation of QGIS 2.0 is fairly easy on Ubuntu but much easier using Windows as an operating system. The installer is very handy and is provided by the OSGEO4W project (Open Source Geospatial Foundation for Windows).

Today QGIS 2.0 was officially released and we will come up with several tutorials in the next weeks. First of all: the installation. As we are fans of open source we would like to show you the installation on a fresh build Ubuntu system: Installation on Ubuntu QGIS strongly depends on the grass libraries so as a first step we will install them: As QGIS 2.0 is not part of the official Ubuntu repositories (aka software provider) we need to enhance the list of software providers. Open up the terminal and edit the sources.list which helds this list: Now the…